1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 25 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 25. ἐξ οὗτε Βάκχαις ἐστρατήγησεν θεός | 25. ever since he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war, and contrived for Pentheus death as of a hunted hare. I call on the streams of Pleistus and the strength of Poseidon, and highest Zeus, the Fulfiller; and then I take my seat as prophetess upon my throne. |
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2. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1313 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1313. θυρσαδδωᾶν καὶ παιδδωᾶν. | |
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3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 605 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 605. Βάκχαις Δελφίσιν ἐμπρέπων | |
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4. Euripides, Bacchae, 1029, 1089, 1093, 1124, 1131, 1145, 1153, 1160, 1168, 1189, 1224, 129, 1387, 152-153, 169, 195, 225, 259, 366, 415, 443, 491, 499, 51, 529-530, 578, 605, 62, 623, 632, 664, 67-68, 690, 735, 759, 779, 785, 791, 799, 83, 837, 842, 847, 915, 940, 942, 946, 987, 998, 1020 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1020. ἴθʼ, ὦ Βάκχε, θηραγρευτᾷ βακχᾶν | 1020. Go, Bacchus, with smiling face throw a deadly noose around the hunter of the Bacchae as he falls beneath the flock of Maenads. Second Messenger |
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5. Euripides, Cyclops, 156, 38, 446, 64, 709, 72, 143 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 143. ὁ Βακχίου παῖς, ὡς σαφέστερον μάθῃς. | 143. The son of the Bacchic god, that thou mayst learn more certainly. Silenu |
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6. Euripides, Electra, 108-135, 107 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 107. ἀλλ' — εἰσορῶ γὰρ τήνδε προσπόλον τινά | |
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7. Euripides, Hecuba, 1076, 108-120, 122-135, 218-220, 107 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 107. ἐν γὰρ ̓Αχαιῶν πλήρει ξυνόδῳ | |
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8. Euripides, Helen, 543 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 543. οὐχ ὡς δρομαία πῶλος ἢ Βάκχη θεοῦ | |
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9. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 411-424, 567-573, 410 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 410. ἐγὼ δ' ἔχω μέν, ὡς ὁρᾷς, προθυμίαν | 410. Now I, though in your cause I am as zealous as thou seest, yet will not slay my child, nor will I compel any of my subjects to do so against his will; for who of his own will doth harbour such an evil thought as to yield with his own hands the child he loves? |
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10. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1119 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1119. I will explain, if you are no longer mad as a fiend of hell. Heracle |
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11. Euripides, Hippolytus, 560, 551 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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12. Euripides, Ion, 552-553, 716-717, 550 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 550. Didst thou in days gone by come to the Pythian rock? Xuthu |
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13. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 953, 164 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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14. Euripides, Orestes, 867-956, 866 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 866. I had just come from the country and was entering the gates, needing to learn what was decided about you and Orestes, for I was always well disposed to your father when he was alive, and it was your house that reared me |
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15. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1489 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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16. Euripides, Rhesus, 972 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 972. As under far Pangaion Orpheus lies |
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17. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ; |
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18. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 253a. they seek after information themselves, and when they search eagerly within themselves to find the nature of their god, they are successful, because they have been compelled to keep their eyes fixed upon the god, and as they reach and grasp him by memory they are inspired and receive from him character and habits, so far as it is possible for a man to have part in God. Now they consider the beloved the cause of all this, so they love him more than before, and if they draw the waters of their inspiration from Zeus, like the bacchantes, they pour it out upon the beloved and make him, so far as possible, like their god. |
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19. Sophocles, Antigone, 154, 1122 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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20. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 211 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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21. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.52 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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22. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
| 59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. |
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23. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 474.15-474.16
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